Present Situation of Xbox 360 in Japan
| Present Situation of Xbox 360 in Japan | |
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Xbox 360 is difficult in Japan. |
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It is the Second in terms of world's share. However here in Japan, Wii's console sale is top, then comes PS3 and Xbox 360 is the last. Though Xbox 360 launched one year before PS3, it was a hard fight for it to hit 1 million. |
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This was accomplished on March, 2009. It launched in Japan on December, 2005, so took 4 years for that. |
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By the way, PS3 hits 3 millions. |
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And there is another factor affecting the actual sales of Xbox 360 in Japan right? |
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That's true. You know Xbox 360 can be malfunction easily, and the same user is buying a few Xbox 360s to replace, so the actual number of users should be less but that is not the point. The specific problem in Japan is... |
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Is? |
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Most of the sales is for further export towards Asia market. |
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You mean for illegal customize in order to play pirate software. |
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We will talk about that later. But you should note that the so-called 1 million sales in Japan actually included the amount for further export and those for replacing malfunction consoles. |
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Got it. |
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By the way, my Xbox 360 failed to work and I bought a new one. So I have contributed 2 for the 1 million figure. |
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There is nothing proud for that... |
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As for software, the best sales figure is 0.2 million. As the actual number of users is less than 1 million, this mean that 1 out of 4 Xbox 360 users bought the same software. |
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And the titles are Star Ocean: The Last Hope (Star Ocean 4), Tales of Vesperia and Blue Dragon. |
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They all sold 0.2 million. On the contrary, famous foreign title like Halo 3 only sold 80 thousand. |
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But it sold 10 million worldwide. |
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By the way, 1 out of that 80 thousand figure is contributed by me. |
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No one care about that... |
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So from the point of view of foreigners, situation of Xbox 360 in Japan is unbelievable. We will talk about the reasons for that another time. Let's grasp the difficult situation of Xbox 360 here in Japan first. |
August 31, 2009 11:20 PM | Xbox360 | Japan,Xbox360
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Now that's really interesting. This is the first time I have actually come across an article by a Japanese gamer/writer who actually owns an Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 is not big in Japan, so the measly sales figures of Xbox titles released there is not a surprise. It will be a really cold day in Hell if an Xbox 360 game hits the 1 million mark ( heck, even 250,000 mark) there in Japan.
Japan is strictly PS3 territory ( let's not factor in Nintendo's Wii because EVERYONE has it, even someone's oba-san/grandmother ).So it is really a rare occasion to catch a first-hand glimpse on what is going on in japan when it comes to the 360 from a person who knows all about it.
Playing pirated games anywhere ( in Japan, Asia, Europe or America, anywhere ) on modified consoles will get any xbox360 console bricked ( banned ). So those who bought modified console to play pirated games can only enjoy their 360's by not going online.
Nice article, by the way.